obverse

Facing or turned toward the observer.

Serving as a counterpart or complement.

The side of a coin, medal, or badge that bears the principal stamp or design.

The more conspicuous of two possible alternatives, cases, or sides.

The counterpart of a proposition obtained by exchanging the affirmative for the negative quality of the whole proposition and then negating the predicate.

Specifically, in logic, the contranominal of the inverse of a proposition.

Turned toward (one); facing: opposed to reverse, and applied in numismatics to that side of a coin or medal which bears the head or more important inscription or device.

In botany, having the base narrower than the top, as a leaf.

In numismatics, the face or principal side of a coin or medal, as distinguished from the other side, called the reverse. See numismatics, and cuts under maravedi, medallion, and merk.

Hence A second aspect of the same fact; a correlative proposition identically implying another.